Proteins are the microscopic workhorses of the human body, driving everything from oxygen transport to muscle contraction. Their complex 3D structures dictate their function, and understanding these ...

While many businesses continue to seek AI’s killer app, biochemists have already found it. That application is protein folding. This week marks the five-year anniversary of the debut of Alpha Fold 2, ...

The Alphafold machine learning system for predicting a protein’s structure from its amino acid sequence has been adapted to make it possible to design de novo proteins that fold in a particular way ...

Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, a senior researcher at the company, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on AlphaFold, an AI model that predicts ...